Backdoor Theatre
  • Home
  • About
    • Our History
    • Backdoor Staff
    • Backdoor Board
    • Plan Your Visit
    • 2020 Flood Updates
    • Past Productions
  • Buy Tickets
    • Pricing and Show Times
    • Purchase Tickets
    • 2023 Season Tickets
  • Events
    • Do, Re, Murder!
    • 2023 Season >
      • Xanadu
      • Mad Libs Live!
      • The Lightning Thief
      • Sherwood
      • Puffs
      • Scrooge in Rouge
    • Pay What You Can
    • An Evening of Improv
    • Improv Workshop
    • Workshop Series
  • Auditions
  • Youth Programs
    • Backdoor's Theatre School
    • Summer Theatre Academy
    • TNT Youth Conference
  • Get Involved
    • Ghost Light Society
    • Volunteers
    • Show/Season Sponsorship
    • Program Ads
  • Contact
  • Donate

July 18, 2020 - The Flood

7/18/2020

2 Comments

 
Picture
Backdoor Theatre has been our community’s premier nonprofit theatre for the past 50 years . Like many art institutions, we were forced to close our doors in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the hopes of safely reopening in the fall of 2020.

​Catastrophically, on July 18, 2020, a water main burst and flooded our theatre’s Dinner Stage and Main Stage Lobby at the rate of 80 gallons per minute.  In under an hour, our beloved dinner stage and main stage lobby were submerged under a staggering five feet of water.  The immediate outpouring of community support was incredible between volunteer cleanup days, news coverage, and financial contributions.  Unfortunately, the damage to the dinner theatre and main stage lobby was very extensive.  Our current timeline estimate that we will not be back in full operation until 2023.

Our current estimate for rebuild is $350,000+.  If you would like to donate, you can give here.  If you are interested in volunteering at future workdays, please sign up here.

2 Comments

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    January 2022
    July 2020

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

  • Home
  • About
    • Our History
    • Backdoor Staff
    • Backdoor Board
    • Plan Your Visit
    • 2020 Flood Updates
    • Past Productions
  • Buy Tickets
    • Pricing and Show Times
    • Purchase Tickets
    • 2023 Season Tickets
  • Events
    • Do, Re, Murder!
    • 2023 Season >
      • Xanadu
      • Mad Libs Live!
      • The Lightning Thief
      • Sherwood
      • Puffs
      • Scrooge in Rouge
    • Pay What You Can
    • An Evening of Improv
    • Improv Workshop
    • Workshop Series
  • Auditions
  • Youth Programs
    • Backdoor's Theatre School
    • Summer Theatre Academy
    • TNT Youth Conference
  • Get Involved
    • Ghost Light Society
    • Volunteers
    • Show/Season Sponsorship
    • Program Ads
  • Contact
  • Donate